573. Fragments
- Description:
- Two fragments of a re-used marble pilaster capital, reversed.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the reverse face.
- Letters:
- Irregular capitals, third or fourth centuries A.D.: 0.04. a) w: 0.15 x h: 0.11 x d: 0.035, upper edge. b) w: 0.13 x h: 0.09 x d: 0.035, no edges surviving.
- Date:
- Third or fourth centuries A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
ab
<div
type="textpart"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
I
</supplied>
ulius
Ho
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
u
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ir
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
erfectissimus
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<div
type="textpart"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
s
Cirta
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
a.1, IU LI US HO Written IV.LI.VS. HO.
b.1, S CIR TA Written S.CIR.TA.
Translation:
(a)[·· ? ··] Julius Ho[·· ? ··], excellent man (of equestrian status) [·· ? ··] (b)[·· ? ··] (? in or) from Cirta[·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXII.34)
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